1960267 - browser.urlbar.trimHttps no longer effective

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Yves Goergen [:ygoe]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:137.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/137.0

Steps to reproduce:

I set "browser.urlbar.trimHttps" to false long ago, or it has always been (it shows as false == default right now). It meant that I would always see the "https://" prefix of URLs.

Actual results:

In Firefox 137, that's no longer the case. The prefix is normally hidden, leading to unexpected text jumping around when I double-click the URL to select a part of it, because then the prefix is suddenly there again.

Expected results:

The setting should probably still work as before and always show the URL scheme when set to false.

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

Regression window:
https://hg-edge.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=c57a7e20d1bc3e96fa0a78b7c818ee14e70fe01b&tochange=96fe9c781b68d282f7d4debe45042ad06c178f62

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

And with force browser.urlbar.scotchBonnet.enableOverride = true;
The range is:
https://hg-edge.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=e1d771b15d446eb6faa5166bee43ae694cf6ba4c&tochange=fd71ec4db746438fc0e2aaacf28f2f9db2490bd1

Comment 3

[Chris Bellini (:cbellini)]

This will be the behaviour going forward, and so if similar functionality is desired, browser.urlbar.trimURLs would be the recommended pref to change.